Man. Like those military notes, I wonder if the slightly uneven eyes were a counterfeit-beating measure. Were those used to avoid having to ship heavy coins abroad?
Those Chihuahua notes from the start of the RevoluciΓ³n, I kind of wonder if they ever got cashed in for full value. But I read that Villa, starting out, was paying his men in gold pesos. Only later did he print so much paper money that it dropped in value iirc.
Texas money-- any idea what was on the triangular cut-out?
Confederate-- as a child I remember my grandmother taking three CSA $20 bills out of hiding to show to me. At the time I thought a great-great-grandaddy Canecutter had ridden the dusty trail home with them stashed in a saddle bag. Now I realize maybe my own grandad bought them a century later in the little tobacco/paperback/porn magazine kiosk that once stood on Broad Street in downtown Selma.
Don't know if they're still stashed in her old house. They looked nice, so maybe they were Union counterfeits.
I once read that on the eve of Lee's surrender, the CSA Dollar was running about 70 to 1 to the US Dollar (the real one, not the Greenback.) So, at the low point of the Confederacy, you could theoretically use 1400 doomed bumwad dollars to get an ounce of gold. I doubt it ever happened, but I am sure that eggs or other perishables changed hands in the currency up until the end, and maybe after-- say it's 1865, and you read that clause about how they could be cashed in "6 months after a ratification of a treaty of peace," well, it doesn't say anything about winning, who knows if the Yankees might honor it for some number of cents on the dollar? Makes as much sense as holding onto some NFT.